Thought in a Hostile World

<i><b>WINNER OF THE 2004 LAKATOS AWARD!</b></i><br /> <p><i>Thought in a Hostile World</i> is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today’s foremost philosophers of biology and of mind.<br /> </p> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Featuresan exploration of the evolution of human cognition.<br /> </li> <li>Written by one of today’s foremost philosophers of mind and language.<br /> </li> <li>Presents a set of analytic tools for thinking about cognition and its evolution.<br /> </li> <li>Offers a critique of nativist, modular versions of evolutionary psychology, rejecting the example of language as a model for thinking about human cognitive capacities.<br /> </li> <li>Applies to the areas of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology.</li> </ul>